Bird (1988)

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Wikidata Q865056, film, IMDb tt0094747, TMDB 24679: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Forest Whitaker as actor (The Color of Money with Chris Ryan); 1 more episode agrees.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Bronco Billy: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (shared theme): Bird → Bronco Billy. Eastwood's theme of craft as self-destruction, central to Bird, is also what Bronco Billy and White Hunter, Black Heart are about.
    “It's kind of what Bronco Billy's about, is what White Hunter, Black Heart is about.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:58:04 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Forest Whitaker: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career arc): Forest Whitaker → Bird. Whitaker's Color of Money scene leads to Good Morning Vietnam and then Bird, and his run of Ghost Dog, Last King of Scotland and The Butler as movie-star vehicles.
    “And then the year after that is bird, which is just, I mean, it's one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies, it's probably my favorite forest, what a performance”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:23:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jersey Boys: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (same director, grave mode): Bird → Jersey Boys. Adam likes Eastwood in his severe, slow-paced mode, even in Jersey Boys.
    “as someone who likes Eastwood and likes him in his kind of grave, severe, slow paced mode, even like Jersey Boys”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:58:58 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Revenge: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (studio rights trade): Bird → Revenge. Warner Bros. and Columbia swapped Revenge and the Charlie Parker story so both could be made.
    “They had to trade the Kevin Costner, Tony Scott movie Revenge from Warner Brothers to Columbia and the Charlie Parker story from Columbia to Warner Brothers”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:59:42 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Richard Pryor: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (almost-cast): Bird → Richard Pryor. For years Richard Pryor was supposed to play Charlie Parker before Forest Whitaker did.
    “One for years was supposed to be Richard Pryor, portraying Charlie Parker, and it ultimately became Forrest Whitaker.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:59:28 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career arc): Forest Whitaker → Bird. Whitaker's Color of Money scene leads to Good Morning Vietnam and then Bird, and his run of Ghost Dog, Last King of Scotland and The Butler as movie-star vehicles.
    “And then the year after that is bird, which is just, I mean, it's one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies, it's probably my favorite forest, what a performance”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:23:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (studio rights trade): Bird → Revenge. Warner Bros. and Columbia swapped Revenge and the Charlie Parker story so both could be made.
    “They had to trade the Kevin Costner, Tony Scott movie Revenge from Warner Brothers to Columbia and the Charlie Parker story from Columbia to Warner Brothers”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:59:42 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (same director, grave mode): Bird → Jersey Boys. Adam likes Eastwood in his severe, slow-paced mode, even in Jersey Boys.
    “as someone who likes Eastwood and likes him in his kind of grave, severe, slow paced mode, even like Jersey Boys”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:58:58 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (shared theme): Bird → Bronco Billy. Eastwood's theme of craft as self-destruction, central to Bird, is also what Bronco Billy and White Hunter, Black Heart are about.
    “It's kind of what Bronco Billy's about, is what White Hunter, Black Heart is about.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:58:04 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (almost-cast): Bird → Richard Pryor. For years Richard Pryor was supposed to play Charlie Parker before Forest Whitaker did.
    “One for years was supposed to be Richard Pryor, portraying Charlie Parker, and it ultimately became Forrest Whitaker.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:59:28 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Bird: Warner Bros. and Columbia traded Revenge for the Charlie Parker rights, and Adam jokes Revenge is a gift to history that social media should avoid.
    “Revenge and Bird would be quite a double feature.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:59:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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